Operation Able Sentry

Operation Able Sentry (1 July 2004) was an action that the US Marine Corps fought in the Iraq War against the Iraqi insurgents. The US Marine Corps launched a military operation against Iraqi insurgents defending Saddam Square in Baghdad, and although they suffered heavy casualties, they were victorious.

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US Marines launched an operation to topple a Saddam Hussein state in Saddam Square in Baghdad, where Iraqi insurgents (primarily Ba'ath Party loyalists) resisted the US Marine Corps. The Americans conducted a well-planned operation involving Marines crawling next to a stone wall adjacent to the main road, securing a building on the road, and climbing up the building to head to the rooftops. From there, they could move to a building near Saddam Square, head down the stairs, and get to the ground level, where they would attack the square itself. Insurgent ambushes complicated the plan, but US troops were successful in killing all of the insurgents that engaged them. They were victorious over the insurgents, and they tore down the statue of Saddam in the square.